Professor
University of Wisconsin-Madison
MADISON, Wisconsin
Tom Crenshaw is a professor in the Department of Animal and Dairy Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a research and teaching appointment. Dr. Crenshaw received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Nebraska in swine nutrition after his B.S. degree in Animal Sciences at the University of Tennessee-Martin. Current teaching responsibilities include undergraduate courses in comparative animal nutrition, swine production, and applied monogastric nutrition, with graduate courses in experimental diet design and an interdepartmental graduate nutrition seminar course.
Two primary research themes in mineral nutrition have persisted throughout Dr. Crenshaw’s career. Themes include nutritional factors that enhance bone integrity and cation-anion balance of mineral elements. These research themes have required integration of nutritional, biochemical, physiological, and cellular pathways, with inorganic chemistry, and mechanical engineering principles. With a primary focus on swine nutrition, Dr. Crenshaw’s research efforts in nutrition began with the use of mechanical engineering principles to assess the effects of nutrients on bone integrity, as this interface was the subject of his Ph.D. research. As a complement to his research contributions in minerals and vitamins for swine nutrition, Dr. Crenshaw has maintained strong ties with researchers in academia and the commercial swine nutrition industry, but importantly, the research projects have offered opportunities to train both graduate and undergraduate students.
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Wednesday, March 13, 2024
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